04/07/2015 by steveo
No fancy prose this week. I actually could’ve used last week’s image again, it was a ghostly blur. But as others have pointed out, we photographers produce a whole bunch of “creatively” blurred images that work with this challenge. So here’s the first type of blur from me – Almost Blur.
When you’re almost in the right place, at the right time, with the right camera, right lens, right shutter speed, right ISO, right aperture and right focus – this happens. If only I had been on the other side of the small trees. Almost . . .

Almost (sigh) Blur
Tags: almost, blur, eagle, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, weekly photo challenge
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03/30/2015 by steveo
Everyone has them.

Elk – Bad Hair Day

Elk – Better Hair Day
Tags: bad hair day, elk, photo, photography
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03/30/2015 by steveo

Turkey Vulture
Found this guy sitting on top of a large dead tree on my way home from World Eagle Day (more about that later).
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Tags: birds, photo, photography, turkey vulture
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03/28/2015 by steveo
On cold wintry night when wind answers wolf’s howl, while lights flicker like fleeting fire flames, and barren branches cast eerie movement on frosted windows until fearful moon hides behind darkened cloud, with glass of Amontillado as last pixels fade, erasing words Vincent ushered from Poet’s beating heart, soon to be seen . . . nevermore, ephemeral souls departed, move cold draft on face and for digital sensors, leave trace.

ephemeral
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Tags: apparitions, Edgar Allan Poe, ephemeral, ghosts, photography, photos, postaday, postaweek, Vincent Price, weekly photo challenge
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03/20/2015 by steveo

Trader Joe’s
1,000 Day
Gouda Cheese
Well it’s been at least 1000 days (2.74 years) since I first saw this cheese advertised and now, when I’ve finally found it in Trader Joe’s cheese cases.
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Tags: calories, cheese, food, gouda, gouda cheese, price, review, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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03/20/2015 by steveo

Moser Roth Chili Chocolate
This one doesn’t work for me. The dark chocolate is excellent and totally hides the chili until about a minute later when the heat from the chili starts to warm the throat building up over the next two or three minutes to a low burn and mild chili taste. My preference would’ve been that the chocolate taste linger. While chocolate and chilies may work in a mole sauce, it’s not a combination that works for me in this chocolate bar.
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Tags: aldi, calories, chili chocolate, chocolate, cooking, food, moser roth chocolate, price, review
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03/18/2015 by steveo
Okay. It was my fault. I should have bought the second battery for the DSLR. Time for a pinch hitter then. “You, 8 years old ‘advanced’ point and shoot 5 mp, get off the bench and knock one over the fence for me.”

Yes it was wet.
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Tags: fog, misty, photo, photography, walk around the lake
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